Analysis of To A Lost Love
Ernest Christopher Dowson 1867 – 1900
I seek no more to bridge the gulf that lies
Betwixt our separate ways;
For vainly my heart prays,
Hope droops her head and dies;
I see the sad, tired answer in your eyes.
I did not heed, and yet the stars were clear;
Dreaming that love could mate
Lives grown so separate;--
But at the best, my dear,
I see we should not have been very near.
I knew the end before the end was nigh:
The stars have grown so plain;
Vainly I sigh, in vain
For things that come to some,
But unto you and me will never come.
Scheme | ABBAA CDDCC XEEFF |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (33%) |
Metre | 1111110111 0110101 110111 110101 11011010011 1111010101 101111 11110 110111 1111111101 1101010111 011111 101101 111111 1101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 495 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 127 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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